CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Etiology, Tisiphone, Sam Groth
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Cla 204- olympians: dionysus, hubris and a few good humans (may. Timai wine, ecstasy, ivy, fluids (milk and blood), animal and vegetable nature. Symbols: vine, grapes, ivy, thyrsus, panther, lion, bull. Has a son with aphrodite name priapus. Rustic god of fertility and vegetable bounty. Phallic sign of good luck in the ancient world. Daughter of cadmus and harmonia [daughter of aphrodite and ares during their affair] Mortal/human dionysus is the only god who has a mortal parent. Zeus" was in love with semele and during their relationship, he was opened with the fact that he is a god [zeus specifically] Semele eventually became pregnant with dionysus in which caused hera to be jealous. Hera, disguised herself as a nurse to visit semele and advise her that she should ask zeus to reveal his true form semele agrees, skeptical that he was actually zeus.
